Agreed. I bought mine shortly after launch after a 5 minute demo by someone down at my local. It was an easy sell, but I was curious to see how the platform would grow, having watched the lifespan of the PlayStation and the PS2 up to that point.
99% of the games suck
I have to disagree here. I regularly play and enjoy Everyone's Golf (The old Hot Shot franchise), MVP, Burnout, Namco's Portable Island Resort, World Tour Soccer 2, FIFA World Cup 2006, SOCOM and Puzzle Bobble. I am checking out a couple of interesting RPGs as well and looking forward to Ridge Racer 2 when it does come out. There are other titles that I've played and enjoyed and many that I haven't seen (maybe they all suck, I don't know). But if it is only 1 percent that don't suck, that seems to be working out fine for me.
im not stupid enough to buy my movies over again
Nor am I. I did buy one UMD movie when I got my PSP, just for the novelty. I didn't think I would likely be picking up another one, and imagined that if that was the prevailing attitude it would not be living long as a portable movie format. But the UMD's success or failure in the movie arena is irrelevant to the console as a gaming device. UMD movie cessation just doesn't mean anything for games. Period.
Before I picked up my PSP, however, I noticed a program called PSPWare. It let me easily drag and drop movies to be converted and transferred to my PSP. It also let me sync photos from my iPhoto library and MP3s from my iTunes library if I wanted. In addition to this it automagically backed up my save games off my memory sticks when I synced so I always have a backup of every save. It seemed like 15 dollars well spent and it was. I wanted to watch video on my PSP, but like you I wasn't going to be repurchasing content. I use my PSP numerous times per week as PSP and it rocks for that as well.
and its too freakin big for an mp3 player
Well, maybe for your pocket, but as a docked MP3 player it's just the right size. I didn't buy it to replace my iPod. The MP3 playback is a nice extra. The fact that you can set it up in the kitchen in a dock and stream audio to it wirelessly is pretty damn neat. A nice portable AirPort Express audio player.
And then there's emulation. That was one of the reasons I did pick it up and have not been upset with all. Retro gaming rocks my world and it is a superb platform for that, whether Sony likes it or not.
After seeing the photos of Mylo the other day http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/09/conte nt_4941966.htm I saw some features that would have been really nice to see in PSP (and are likely to see in some future PSP device). And that bodes well for the future.
Well, let's see here. SCUMMVM added support for AGI games in the current development builds, so I've been playing Kings Quest, II, III, IV, Space Quest I, II, Gold Rush and some other golden oldies again on my desktop. Thanks to SCUMMVM 0.9 on my PSP, I've been playing The Dig and other SCUMM classics with their full talkie versions (multiGB memory sticks are great).
I would submit that Apple finally "got it" when they started using standard DIMMs (versus proprietary), PCI-based graphics (versus proprietary), IDE drives (versus SCSI), USB (in addition to firewire), standard monitors, and now Intel CPUs.
proprietary | (protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights)
NuBus was an IEEE standard. The Mac RAM wasn't proprietary either. If my memory serves FireWire did not predate USB on the Mac platform either. I don't recall Macs with built in FireWire and ADB ports, so I'm not sure about the USB in addition to FireWire comment. small video adapters were available to plug VGA/SVGA monitors into the earlier Mac video port (which were also another Int'l standard, nothing proprietary).
While I see something in your point, your examples seem weak by comparison.
Yes. Absolutely. "Nobody ever got fired for recommending Microsoft Office."
Clearly you don't know anyone that recommended buying Word 6 for Macintosh. After Word 5 being just fine they created a superturd in the next release.
Take a Mac program, port it to Windows, rewrite it, and then compile it for Windows and Mac. How could that possibly yield a crap product?
In spite of the Dan Quayle reference in my comment, you still managed to fail it... In addition to being an archaic spelling for potato, it was also a famous spelling error by a former VPOTUS. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potatoe
Amusingly enough, the old Microsoft AntiVirus for DOS and later for Windows was just a repackaged underpowered version of Central Point's CPAV software. Who bought CPAV? Symantec...
http://www.answers.com/topic/microsoft-anti-virus/
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And that would be (Royal) Philips.
Really now. Is the mod in marketing or advertising or something?
Tech demo linkee here, for those that don't know...includind video. http://www.fantasyanime.com/finalfantasy/ff6/ff6ff 7.htm
Seriously.
Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System
If that isn't nicknamed Cigars already, it should be!
"Apple and MS both ripped off Xerox!"
Ooh, goodie, cue the mini flamewar below.
Brilliant piece of hardware.
e nt_4941966.htm I saw some features that would have been really nice to see in PSP (and are likely to see in some future PSP device). And that bodes well for the future.
Agreed. I bought mine shortly after launch after a 5 minute demo by someone down at my local. It was an easy sell, but I was curious to see how the platform would grow, having watched the lifespan of the PlayStation and the PS2 up to that point.
99% of the games suck
I have to disagree here. I regularly play and enjoy Everyone's Golf (The old Hot Shot franchise), MVP, Burnout, Namco's Portable Island Resort, World Tour Soccer 2, FIFA World Cup 2006, SOCOM and Puzzle Bobble. I am checking out a couple of interesting RPGs as well and looking forward to Ridge Racer 2 when it does come out. There are other titles that I've played and enjoyed and many that I haven't seen (maybe they all suck, I don't know). But if it is only 1 percent that don't suck, that seems to be working out fine for me.
im not stupid enough to buy my movies over again
Nor am I. I did buy one UMD movie when I got my PSP, just for the novelty. I didn't think I would likely be picking up another one, and imagined that if that was the prevailing attitude it would not be living long as a portable movie format. But the UMD's success or failure in the movie arena is irrelevant to the console as a gaming device. UMD movie cessation just doesn't mean anything for games. Period.
Before I picked up my PSP, however, I noticed a program called PSPWare. It let me easily drag and drop movies to be converted and transferred to my PSP. It also let me sync photos from my iPhoto library and MP3s from my iTunes library if I wanted. In addition to this it automagically backed up my save games off my memory sticks when I synced so I always have a backup of every save. It seemed like 15 dollars well spent and it was. I wanted to watch video on my PSP, but like you I wasn't going to be repurchasing content. I use my PSP numerous times per week as PSP and it rocks for that as well.
and its too freakin big for an mp3 player
Well, maybe for your pocket, but as a docked MP3 player it's just the right size. I didn't buy it to replace my iPod. The MP3 playback is a nice extra. The fact that you can set it up in the kitchen in a dock and stream audio to it wirelessly is pretty damn neat. A nice portable AirPort Express audio player.
And then there's emulation. That was one of the reasons I did pick it up and have not been upset with all. Retro gaming rocks my world and it is a superb platform for that, whether Sony likes it or not.
After seeing the photos of Mylo the other day http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/09/cont
Or your PSP.
Well, let's see here. SCUMMVM added support for AGI games in the current development builds, so I've been playing Kings Quest, II, III, IV, Space Quest I, II, Gold Rush and some other golden oldies again on my desktop. Thanks to SCUMMVM 0.9 on my PSP, I've been playing The Dig and other SCUMM classics with their full talkie versions (multiGB memory sticks are great).
I would submit that Apple finally "got it" when they started using standard DIMMs (versus proprietary), PCI-based graphics (versus proprietary), IDE drives (versus SCSI), USB (in addition to firewire), standard monitors, and now Intel CPUs.
proprietary | (protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights)
NuBus was an IEEE standard. The Mac RAM wasn't proprietary either. If my memory serves FireWire did not predate USB on the Mac platform either. I don't recall Macs with built in FireWire and ADB ports, so I'm not sure about the USB in addition to FireWire comment. small video adapters were available to plug VGA/SVGA monitors into the earlier Mac video port (which were also another Int'l standard, nothing proprietary).
While I see something in your point, your examples seem weak by comparison.
I looked at the tag "Stargate" and the Stargate reference in the dept heading and looked at the summary.
"Damn kids!" I thought to myself...and I am not that old.
If I had the points today I would have modded it up myself.
Yes. Absolutely. "Nobody ever got fired for recommending Microsoft Office."
Clearly you don't know anyone that recommended buying Word 6 for Macintosh. After Word 5 being just fine they created a superturd in the next release.
Take a Mac program, port it to Windows, rewrite it, and then compile it for Windows and Mac. How could that possibly yield a crap product?
Animal Farm, no? Geez, pick up a book.
San Fransisco
Spelling.
San Francisco BTW.
In spite of the Dan Quayle reference in my comment, you still managed to fail it... In addition to being an archaic spelling for potato, it was also a famous spelling error by a former VPOTUS. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potatoe
it was 1/10th of income(or potates
Somebody dispatch Dan Quayle to assist this poor soul with their spelling.
Nice Bruce Lee element there. No Style For Style. He did say it was the best way to win a fight. Even applies to fights with web pages. Good to know.
No, Newton was the PDA. Pippin was the video game system.
And Red all over?
She looked a bit like a Romulan in Hackers. But a damn hot Romulan!
With pix.
http://images.celebritymoviearchive.com/members/th umbs/d/down-Angelina_Jolie-Hackers-Trailer-720x480 .jpg
Not exactly true... http://www.429bauhaus.no-ip.com/Apple/apple_powerc d.html
Portable, check, CD, check, plays music, check.
Funny Transformers linguistic post gets modded Offtopic? Geez people.
What if your mother was a television? Mine wasn't, but I look around at some people and think that might just have been the case...
Amusingly enough, the old Microsoft AntiVirus for DOS and later for Windows was just a repackaged underpowered version of Central Point's CPAV software. Who bought CPAV? Symantec... http://www.answers.com/topic/microsoft-anti-virus/
Based on the breakdown of the board, maybe renaming it the National Institute on Media and My Family would be more accurate.